Ustream.TV Chosen to Live Stream the Republican National Convention
Erick Schonfeld
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For those of you without C-SPAN, the Republican National Convention will be streamed live over the Web, and Ustream.TV has been chosen to be the official provider of live video streaming technology. (No doubt, other live streaming services such as Justin.TV,, Blog.tv, or Mogulus will be used by journalists and bloggers covering the event as well). The announcement is being made right now on Ustream.TV
Live streaming over the Web is a good way for the political parties to broadcast their message straight to the voters without any of that messy press commentary. But political bloggers should love this. Come September, they will be able to watch the Republican Convention from the comfort of their own homes, without having to swivel around to turn on their TVs. In addition to all the speechifying, Ustream.TV will also be used to set up live interviews and Web video chats between Republican officials and bloggers/journalists covering the event remotely. The video from the convention will be archived and available for bloggers and media outlets to repost to their own Websites.
With General Wesley Clark on its board of directors, maybe UStream has a shot at live streaming the Democratic convention also.
Obama > *
phew and for a second there i thought i would have to tivo it. oh wait you said “republican national convention” - yeah i’m not watching that.
Small mistake - Justin.tv link points to blogtv.com
Great news, Ustream is doing very well and really growing fast.
I wonder why Justin.tv and the others aren’t focusing on politics….
Probably because young people don’t get into politics at all. I guess ustream is trying to pull 35-60 year olds into the social media/web 2.0 movement.
Good luck!
Live streaming over the Web is a good way for all promoters and everyone.
They are messing up yet again. “Stickam.com” has the smoothest and best quality Live Streaming Webcam software out right now. We use it for all our company events and shows.
@paul
(Obama > Hillary) < *
Sorry.
Yea..candidates really are going to use Stickam which is owned by a porn company and have what I have seen on there is borderline X rated..
Ustream has a great brand and clearly are leading the pack. Good work.
I love Ustream!
They are wonderful people and excited to see they continue to lead the way!!
If you think Stickam has the best quality you are dead wrong. The quality I saw on Ustream from this broadcast was 100 times better than Stickam.
MT
Stickam has bad quality.
Mogulus breaks if you get 50+ viewers.
Justin.tv breaks randomly and the pages are set up terribly.
BlogTV is straight up scummy.
Ustream can handle the 30k+ viewers, the quality is great, and its constantly streaming major events. Stickam can have the 12 year olds, Ustream is all about quality.
Looks like 80% of these comments were planted by someone at ustream. All the language is the same and seems a tad too positive and flagwaving for TechCrunch.
Mike, Can you check the IPs of those comments to see if they all came from the same place?
Congratulations Chris and UStream team. I will definitely be watching. Showcasing the unique and positive ways to utilize live streaming over the web is always worth applauding…
Scott
the point here isn’t about which site is better, but the social value this partnership is adding. The 2008 election is the hottest in our Nation’s history - no clear favorite going into the RNC. The fact that Americans can get ‘more’ insight into the political process to make their decision in a few months IS THE STORY. Ustream is helping the political process that’s the point.
Btw, it’s fascinating that people in Japan and China can have an interactive view into American politics.
It is great all this interactive TV, but just how much publicity do Politicians need. I mean we focus on 8 months of elections surly congress is important to. What about shining the spotlight on local issues a bit more and the different political parties too….
We have been streaming our live concert series and our morning daily show the last week on all three (not blogtv yet) simultaneously. We run a live 4 camera switch and on New Years we streamed through UStream a Paul Rodgers concert with 7 camera switch. It has been very interesting to see how each of the companies/providers handle the streams, and the chats and the embeds… I am impressed with all of them for different reasons. They each seem to have a very unique approach and mission. I have totally enjoyed working with the heads of each company as they all are very dedicated to delivering quality.
You can switch between the streams if you go to :
http://mogulus.com/eqtv
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/eqtv
http://justin.tv/eqtv
we switch between embeds at our home page http://eq.tv
We are streaming a concert right now if you want to take a look
and then again fri morning 10am pst and again M-F 10-12pm
and a great concert this sat Feb 2 at 9pm pst